Terms & Conditions

What is the DiscoverEU community

The DiscoverEU community is located at  https://discovereucommunity.interrail.eu/ (hereinafter the “DiscoverEU Community Site”) and is operated by Eurail BV (hereinafter “Eurail”), a Dutch corporation listed in the Utrecht Chamber of Commerce register under number 30206952, and whose registered office is located at Leidseveer 10, 3511 SB Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The DiscoverEU Community aims is to offer a space where DiscoverEU travellers who are granted a free Pass can support and inspire each other by sharing information and advice and plan in-person meetups with fellow travellers. Eurail does not intend to intervene or influence the discussion unless it concerns the netiquette and basic rules of the community. 

The present terms of use (hereinafter the “Terms”) shall rule the access to and use of the DiscoverEU Community Site by unregistered visitors (hereinafter the “Visitors”) and registered users (hereinafter the “Users”).

By using the DiscoverEU Community Site, Visitors and/or Users agree to abide by these Terms. In the event any Visitor and/or User does not have the capacity to agree to these Terms (this means that he/she is not of the legal age required or is under any legal protection measure such as legal guardianship), such Visitor and/or User warrants that he/she has parental authorization or such authorization required from their legal guardian giving him/her the permission to use the DiscoverEU Community Site.
 
1. General code of conduct

Our community is there for everyone, however we want to make sure that the community offers a positive experience for all visitors. Therefore, these general guidelines have been established. Should there be any questions or issues, please let us know via a mail to discovereucommunity@eurail.com.

We are here to help. If you are new to the  DiscoverEU Community and are unsure about anything, just ask! The Eurail moderators and other users are happy to help. 

Be friendly. Users must treat one another with respect. Users will not post any racist, insulting, sexist, discriminatory, threatening or otherwise insulting comments, will not use coarse language, make inappropriate jokes or otherwise harass other users. 

Stay on topic. Please do not change the subject of a discussion to something not intended by the original poster. Any off-topic posting or “hijacking” of threads will result in content being removed and ultimately can cause users to be denied access to the community.

Keep it spam-free. The DiscoverEU Community is provided as a service to Eurail/Interrail customers (to be) and is not intended for the promotion of third party services, products, websites, or organizations. Please refrain from posting content that would constitute advertising, junk mail, spam, chain letters, or any other form of unauthorized solicitation.

Keep it legal. User may not post any material (i) that would infringe on any patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party or disclose any trade secret (or other confidential information), (ii) that contains software viruses or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software or hardware, or (iii) that is deemed to be illegal by any local, state, federal, or international law.
 
Be careful. Most people are happy to help out on The DiscoverEU Community, but remember that their advice is theirs only and that you are responsible for deciding whether or not to follow it. If the advice given by a user sounds wrong or risky to you, do not try it. In particular, if any user asks you for personal information, (telephone numbers, account number, address, password or credit card number), do not provide it.

Moderator actions. The Community Team reserves the right to change or remove content or to restrict access to individual users, should it be regarded as necessary. It is not allowed to discuss any Moderation actions in public, should you disagree with an action taken then please contact a Moderator or the Community Manager via private message.

2. Access to and availability of the DiscoverEU Community Site

The DiscoverEU Community Site can be accessed up to 24 hours a day and seven days a week, within the limit of the Terms.

In addition, EURAIL has the right to temporarily remove access to the DiscoverEU Community Site, without prior notice or compensation, where necessary to carry out maintenance due to technological developments or ensure continuity of the DiscoverEU Community Site. EURAIL is also entitled to shut the DiscoverEU Community Site down permanently with no compensation payable. Any permanent shutdown of the DiscoverEU Community Site will be notified via the same DiscoverEU Community Site.

Access to Password Protected/Secure Areas
Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of the website is restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized individuals attempting to access these areas of the website may be subject to prosecution.

Access and registration to the DiscoverEU Community Site. Limited use of the DiscoverEU Community Site by Visitors
Visitors may only access the content that has been made available in public sections of the DiscoverEU Community Site.

Visitors cannot publish content, nor interact with Users, EURAIL’s moderators, or EURAIL customer care service.

To get unrestricted access to all the content and features of the DiscoverEU Community Site, Visitors have to register themselves by following the registration procedure.

Registration to the DiscoverEU Community Site
In order to get unrestricted access to all the content and features of the DiscoverEU Community Site, a Visitor must:

1.         create a User name on the DiscoverEU Community Site;

2.         read and accept these Terms;

3.         login with a DiscoverEU account;

If so desired, the User can also complete the specific profile settings information in the section “Settings” of the “My Profile” page of the User’s account on the DiscoverEU Community Site.  

The User certifies the accuracy of the information given to EURAIL for his registration and agrees to notify EURAIL about any modification.

Use of the DiscoverEU Community Site by Users
Users of the DiscoverEU Community Site shall be able to:

•           consult a forum, participate to a forum through posts, reactions and comments;

•           post images, links, and other content in the conditions set forth in these Terms.

 •           Access the information booth of the Community for inspirational articles from        Eurail and DiscoverEU.  

3. Visitors’ and Users’ liability

a)         The User is solely liable for any messages, content, external link or information published by him on the DiscoverEU Community Site. EURAIL is considered as an Internet service hosting provider only and cannot be held liable for the messages, content, external link(s), or information published by the Users on the DiscoverEU Community Site over which EURAIL has no control or supervision at the moment of their publication.

So as to avoid being held liable, the User expressly agrees to ensure that any message, content, external link, or information published by him on the DiscoverEU Community Site complies with the following (but  not limited) requirements:

Such message, content, external link, or information, shall not:

•           infringe any third party intellectual property rights; therefore, the User agrees not to publish content on the DiscoverEU Community Site that is protected under copyright law, a registered trademark or more generally any content protected by any other intellectual property rights held by third parties without the prior consent of the owner or owners of the said rights;

•           contain any computer virus able to interrupt, destroy or affect the DiscoverEU Community Site’s features; 

•           celebrate crime or criminal behaviour or contain illegal or threatening messages or content of a paedophile, pornographic, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, revisionist nature or contrary to public order and good manners; 

•           infringe the right to private life or promote disrespect for human dignity; 

•           encourage violence, fanaticism, crime, suicide, hate linked to religion, race, sex, sexual preferences, ethnicity; 

•           harass other Users; 

•           promote or encourage any criminal activity or enterprise; 

•           request, collect, and/or disclose any personal information of any User of the DiscoverEU Community Site for any purposes; 

•           transmit email chains, mass unsolicited emails, instant messages, advertising messages and spam messages; 

•           contain any advertising and/or canvassing in order to offer products and/or services to sell through the DiscoverEU Community Site; 

•           contain any addresses or Internet links transferring to external website whose content violates any law and regulation in effect, infringes third party rights or is in breach of the Terms.

 b) The User agrees not to use any automated system such as scripts for the purpose of following Users, posting comments, and/or sending messages.

c) The User is solely responsible for keeping his password safe and confidential; he further undertakes not to disclose his password at any time to any other User or use the account, name or password of any other User.

d) Should a Visitor or a User be in breach of the legislation or infringe any third parties’ rights, EURAIL would be within its rights to provide any information enabling or facilitating the identification of the offender at the request of any legal authority (courts, administrative authorities, and police forces).

Suspension and/or cancellation of a User’s account by EURAIL
Without prejudice to any damages that EURAIL may claim, EURAIL reserves the right to suspend access to the DiscoverEU Community Site by a Visitor or a User and/or delete his account on the DiscoverEU Community Site without notice nor compensation, in the event the Visitor or User does not comply with the Terms and especially: 

o          has not yet turn into the legal age required to participate to DiscoverEU Community 

o          infringes the Intellectual Property rights of EURAIL or any third-party,

o          bypasses or attempts to bypass the technical measures of protection set up by EURAIL,                                      

o          uses multiple simultaneous connections to the same account or attempts to do so,

o          provides false information at the time of his subscription to the DiscoverEU Community Site,

o          has activities prejudicial to EURAIL’s commercial interests.

Eurail retains the right to remove content and limit users' access
Eurail does not generally edit, monitor or pre-screen content posted by users on The DiscoverEU Community. However, Eurail retains the right, at its sole discretion, to limit any users' access to The DiscoverEU Community and to remove material that, in Eurail' sole judgment, does not comply with these Terms of Use, or that is otherwise inappropriate, harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. Moderators may take any action they deem necessary in their own judgment to support the Terms of Use. Such actions may include editing or deleting material and temporary or permanent banning of individual users.

To report violations, please use the Report Inappropriate Content feature or contact the DiscoverEU Community moderators at: community@eurail.com. Please include the message board name and a link to the relevant post.

Private messages and moderator actions
Moderator actions and the contents of private exchanges with moderators, staff members and administrators should not be shared or discussed on the public forums. Such material will be removed by moderators. If you have questions or comments regarding moderator actions, contact the forum administrator, staff or moderators through private message or by sending an email to discovereucommunity@eurail.com.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
Users like you provide much of the material on the DiscoverEU Community. Such third-party content is the sole responsibility of the person originating the material. Eurail does not control and is not responsible for this third-party material.

All information provided on The DiscoverEU Community is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Eurail does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usefulness, non-infringement on intellectual property rights, or quality of any material in the community, regardless of the source of the material. Eurail and its suppliers will not be liable or responsible in any way for any content on The DiscoverEU Community, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in the material, or for any losses or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of or reliance on any material.

Disclaimer of Liability on the Functionalities and Accessibility of DiscoverEU Community

The Visitor or User declares that he has been informed of the scope and limitations of the Internet network.

As a result, EURAIL disclaims all liability for any malfunction in accessing the DiscoverEU Community Site, in the speed at which web-pages load, open and can be read, the temporary or permanent inaccessibility of the DiscoverEU Community Site, and the fraudulent use by third parties of the information provided on the DiscoverEU Community Site.

Therefore, it is the Visitor’s or User’s duty to protect his personal data and information or other equipment and hardware against any form of intrusion and/or virus contamination, for which EURAIL can never be held liable. EURAIL can never be held liable of any malfunction of or damage caused to the Visitor’s or User’s equipment.

More broadly, EURAIL disclaims any liability if a breach of any obligation results from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning and more broadly any unstoppable and unforeseen event which prevents orders being carried out successfully.

EURAIL disclaims all liability should it transpire that the DiscoverEU Community Site is incompatible with certain items of equipment and/or features of the Visitor’s or User’s equipment.

The Visitor or User is solely liable for his use of the DiscoverEU Community Site and cannot hold EURAIL liable for any claim and/or proceedings against him. The Visitor or User shall be responsible for any claim, complaint or objection and more broadly any proceedings brought against EURAIL by a third party in relation to his use of the DiscoverEU Community Site.

Finally, EURAIL disclaims any liability regarding the use or inclusion by any User or Visitor of any external hyperlinks on the DiscoverEU Community Site, and which may link to other websites that are not owned or controlled by EURAIL. EURAIL has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for any content, privacy policies, or any rules of third party websites and is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by any User or Visitor as a result of the availability of any external resources through such external hyperlinks.

4. Intellectual Property
The general structure of the DiscoverEU Community Site and all elements composing it (to the exclusion of content provided by Users) such as but not limited to the logos, domain names, and their associated elements such as but not limited to photos, images, texts, visual packaging of any elements, are the exclusive property of EURAIL and/or its licensors. These elements are protected by intellectual property laws. Users may access and use these elements for the purpose of using the DiscoverEU Community Site, in accordance with the Terms.

Any use of all or part of the DiscoverEU Community Site and/or the elements composing the same (as described above), by any means, without the express consent of EURAIL, is forbidden and shall be treated as tantamount to infringement which is punishable by law.

Any hyperlink to the DiscoverEU Community Site and use of the “framing” technique (programming technique offering the possibility to divide browser windows into different independent frames in order to display the content of an external website) or the “in-line linking” technique (programming to make one element extracted from another site disappear into a web-page, which saves storage space on the hard drive where the DiscoverEU Community Site is hosted and enables to hide the initial content of which the element is part from an uninformed user) is strictly prohibited.

Limited License
Eurail hereby authorizes Users to copy materials published by Eurail on this website solely for non-commercial use within your organization in support of Eurail products. No other use of the information is authorized. In consideration of this authorization, Users agree that any copy of these materials which Users make shall retain all copyright and other proprietary notices in the same form and manner as on the original. Except as specified above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, trademark , copyright or any other intellectual property right of Eurail or any third party. VISITORS OR USERS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO MODIFY, DISTRIBUTE, PUBLISH, TRANSMIT OR CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF ANY MATERIAL FOUND ON THIS SITE FOR ANY PUBLIC OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

Content included on this site and provided by or on behalf of Eurail (including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images and forum posts) is the exclusive property of Eurail. By submitting your content to the DiscoverEU Community you hereby grant to Eurail a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, freely transferable, sub licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all copyright, publicity, and moral rights, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to any content you provide to us in any public space on this website or in any email that you provide to us through this website or any other Eurail website. Please do not post content on the DiscoverEU Community if you do not want to grant Eurail the abovementioned rights.

Trademarks
The trademarks, logos and service marks ("Marks") displayed within The DiscoverEU Community are the property of Eurail or other third parties. Users are not permitted to use these Marks without the prior written consent of Eurail or such third party which may own the Mark. "Eurail" and all Eurail product names are trademarks of Eurail BV.

Links to Third Party Sites 
The DiscoverEU Community may contain links to third party sites. Access to any other internet site linked to this website is at the user's own risk and Eurail is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice or statements made on these sites. Eurail provides these links merely as a convenience and the inclusion of such links does not imply an endorsement. Any links posted by you are subject to all terms and conditions like any other type of content posted to the DiscoverEU Community. You may not post a link that directs users to any content or information that would constitute a violation of these Terms.

Amendments of the Terms
EURAIL has the right to modify the Terms at its sole discretion. EURAIL will inform the User via email to the address given on the User’s account, of any amendments of the Terms at least 2 (two) weeks before they come into effect.

Where the User does not accept these modifications, he will be free to cancel his account on the DiscoverEU Community Site as set forth above.

Invalidity of any clause
Should any of the clauses of the Terms be declared void or voidable for any reason, the other clauses will still apply without any modification.

Customer service
For any information or query regarding the DiscoverEU Community Site, you can contact EURAIL through Support : DiscoverEU Help Centre (start-discover.eu).

Jurisdiction – Claims and disputes

The Terms are governed by Dutch law.

Any claim relating to the application of these Terms of Use must be emailed to the EURAIL’s customer care service by clicking the link http://www.eurail.com/support, or sent by private message, to the DiscoverEU Community team, for prompt processing.

In case of a dispute, the parties shall try to reach an out-of-court settlement. If no settlement can be reached, any claim regarding the validity, interpretation and/or execution of the Terms must be referred to the court in the jurisdiction of Utrecht – The Netherlands.